Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:50:46 +0200https://english.radio.cz/fortepiano-builder-paul-mcnulty-pianist-viviana-sofronitsky-discuss-historic-8271186© 2026 Radio Prague International Most dedicated listeners but also more casual fans of classical music have at some point wondered about the sound of early musical instruments once played by the great composers. The question of how historic instruments might have sounded veritably haunted Russian pianist Anton Rubinstein, who lamented that while some instruments that had survived in museums they had long lost their original colour and tone. The result was that nobody really knew any longer which techniques had been used in their production, or what their exact sound was like. That knowledge and experience had been lost. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/mcnulty_paul.jpg?timestamp=1591139864 https://english.radio.cz/fortepiano-builder-paul-mcnulty-pianist-viviana-sofronitsky-discuss-historic-8271186 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9